Can a wind farm blade rack be modular?

To avoid having to design a different blade rack for each wind farm project, the system had to be modular. Vuyk Engineering Rotterdam has been contracted for the design of the modular blade rack. The solution was found in upscaling the existing B81 blade rack (designed by Vuyk) and reusing most of the existing designs and available equipment.

How does a wind turbine rotor affect electrical generator design?

As a rotating piece machinery forming part of a bigger and more complex machine, electrical generators are subject to dynamic and external forces coming from the wind turbine rotor. The optimised steel design is looked at from a dynamic viewpoint.

How do Wind Turbine Generators (WTG's) work?

Each module carries three blades above each other. In a blade rack suitable for multiple WTG’s the modules are coupled. Cadeler, a frontrunning Danish offshore wind contractor, is selected to transport and install the Wind Turbine Generators (WTG’s) for the Hollandse Kust Zuid Offshore Windfarm.

What is a wind turbine?

S. O. Lind and H. Stiesdal, “Wind Turbine,” Patent WO 2013/083386 A2, June 2013. Direct drive electrical generators are low speed high torque machines whose robust and stiff supporting structures are designed to withstand the significant loads present during the assembly (gravitational and attraction forces) and operation stages.

Can a radial flux direct drive generator be used for offshore wind turbines?

The analysis and optimisation of the mechanical and structural design of a radial flux direct drive generator rated between 0.75-3 MW for land based and fixed bottom offshore wind turbine applications were carried out in and .

Does a pure torque ® generator support a wind turbine?

For this investigation, it was assumed that a system such as Alstom’s Pure Torque® was utilised as the design of the generator supporting structure was carried out considering only the major internal loads present during the machine operation, in other words, isolating the generator from the rest of the wind turbine.